So this was a little easier, though I can see that it’s going to get harder for me as we close out the decade. Once again doing a poll from Slicing Up Eyeballs, and this time I’m actually getting there on time to participate.
Best Albums of 1986
- Big Black – Atomizer
- Coil – Horse Rotorvator
- Dag Nasty – Can I Say
- Dead Milkmen – Eat Your Paisley
- Peter Gabriel – So
- Skinny Puppy – Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse
- R.E.M. – Life’s Rich Pageant
- Erasure – Wonderland
- New Model Army – Ghost of Cain
- Queen – A Kind of Magic (write in. c’mon! Highlander!)
Honorable Mention:
Diamanda Galas – The Divine Punishment
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Tinderbox (just for “Cities in Dust”)
Dead Kennedys – Bedtime for Democracy
“Weird Al” Yankovic – Polka Party
CAVEAT – The website is focused on alternative music and indie music, so my Queen write-in is a little weird, and there’s no Eat ‘Em and Smile or the like.
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